With each passing night as, the crescent slowly widens and it begins to appear against a progressively darker background, its ...

The sun's light is now shining on the other half of the visible face of the moon. Waning crescent: Less than half of the moon's face appears to be getting sunlight, and the amount is decreasing.

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

A remarkable sight will appear in the southwestern sky an hour after sunset Saturday evening when Venus appears very close to a thin crescent moon.

The inevitable consequence of that waning crescent Moon is that it’s getting closer ... Orion constellation in the center, and Gemini on the left. Face southwest, find the famous three stars ...

Venus will be near its maximum brightness, while the moon is both in its waxing crescent phase and at its monthly 'perigee'—its closest approach to Earth—10,500 miles nearer than average at ...

This means we see the Moon’s phases from Earth as different shapes. Waxing crescent Moon – less than half of the visible surface is illuminated (starts as a thin, curved sliver) and getting ...

The autumn stars are moving in, and so is autumn itself. But September has only one big story this year: the moon. A warm-up to the show happens the morning of the 10th, when a waning crescent ...

The sun's light is now shining on the other half of the visible face of the moon. Waning crescent: Less than half of the moon ...